Serpent Daughter – Snippet 11

by | Aug 19, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 11 Lee touched upon an interesting question: What kind of healer could treat Sarah, if she never left her goddess’s holy of holies? And a related question was: What kind of healer could do any more for Sarah than she could do for...

The Portals Of Hell – Snippet 11

by | Aug 19, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

The Portals Of Hell – Snippet 11 Chapter 6: The Wrong Answer Davin crossed the center of the campus, neck muscles tight and face grim. Summer classes were completing today, final examinations starting tomorrow; the fall session would begin soon after. Davin was...

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 10

by | Aug 17, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 10 ~Are you listening?~ he asked. ~Yes,~ Wilkes said. ~Is this Montreal?~ They descended toward a pond, in the center of which stood an island with three buildings. ~Yes,~ Nathaniel told him. ~Things look different in this place.~...

The Portals Of Hell – Snippet 10

by | Aug 17, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

The Portals Of Hell – Snippet 10 *** At the university, a tall and willowy upperclassman met him at the front gate — another perquisite of a famous father. Bidding Belo farewell, Davin shouldered his pack, and trudged after his guide onto the campus...

Marked Territory – Snippet 10

by | Aug 17, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

Marked Territory – Snippet 10 “I ain’t heard shit,” Frisco said, tearing off another piece of meat. “Only thing I know is everyone around here seems to be trying to stay out of this whole mess until day after tomorrow at the least.”...

Heart Of The World – Snippet 09

by | Aug 14, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

Heart Of The World – Snippet 09 They brought more. She washed down through a crust of dirt, to the sunburnt skin of face and arms, and then — with a glance at the women watching her — she peeled off the rags of her dress. Her underthings were gone....

Marked Territory – Snippet 09

by | Aug 14, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

Marked Territory – Snippet 09 It wasn’t empty, either. A scrawny pigeon with ragged feathers perched on the arm of a pew, shifting nervously from foot to foot. A rabbit with matted black fur and red eyes crouched underneath another pew, tensed like he was...

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 09

by | Aug 14, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 09 He had to keep silent, too. That was the game. So, quiet as a butterfly, Ma’iingan ignored the marks on the ground and stalked through the forest. His sons were both healthy. Ayaabe had been healthy from birth, but his son...

The Portals Of Hell – Snippet 09

by | Aug 14, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

The Portals Of Hell – Snippet 09 Chapter 5: A New Beginning Summer fled quickly. Astride Charger, riding with Belo towards L’ Universite d’L’s Hermanes to begin the fall semester, Davin found himself remembering spring and summer as a series of...

Heart Of The World – Snippet 08

by | Aug 12, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

Heart Of The World – Snippet 08 CHAPTER TWO In The Ordu of the Il-Khan Dinah ached, her whole body a single burning pain, her bottom half ripped and ruined. Lying on the hard ground in the dark she shivered, thinking she might be pregnant. Some horror growing in...

Marked Territory – Snippet 08

by | Aug 12, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

Marked Territory – Snippet 08 Chapter Three The trek wasn’t that bad, at first. Some of the spit and polish fell by the wayside after a couple of blocks, but Ringo’s turf was far from the ugliest part of the city I’d ever seen. People moved to...

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 08

by | Aug 12, 2020 | OtherAuthors, Snippets

Serpent Daughter – Snippet 08 Margaret’s gift from their father was a brutal strength and a heroic capacity to shake off blows, both of which were only available to her when she was angry or afraid. You think yourself a queen. You shall be a slave, chained...